Trustee of Labour

Trustees of Labour (German: Treuhänder der Arbeit) were government appointed officials in Nazi Germany in charge of labour relations supervised by the Reich Ministry of Labour. Established by the Trustees of Labour law (Gesetz über Treuhänder der Arbeit) of 19 May 1933, the Trustees of Labour were responsible for the maintenance of industrial peace, i.e. defining minimum (and from 1938 also maximum) wages, resolving individual conflicts and overseeing the establishment of Councils of Trust (Vertrauensräte) in businesses and companies as mandated by the Labour organization law (Arbeitsordnungsgesetz) of 20 January 1934.

Sources

• Trustees of Labour law (German)
• Labour organization law (German)

References

• Tim Mason (1993): Social Policy in the Third Reich. The Working Class and the ‘national community’. Translated by John Broadwin, Berg: Oxford, New York, ISBN 0-85496-410-X, pp.104, 135, 176.